Posts tagged "tech"

Hackaday Links: August 2, 2026

About a month ago, we brought you word that the commercial rescue mission designed by Katalyst Space to save NASA’s Swift gamma-ray observatory had reached orbit and early indicators were …read more

Der alljährliche Nextcloud-Breakdown

Diese Woche hatte ich bei einem Update mal wieder Probleme mit Nextcloud.

An Automated Water Tank Controller

[Jumpor] lives in a part of India where the water infrastructure is a little frustrating to use. Water gets delivered to underground tanks outside of homes, and must then be …read more

Daily News Stuff 2 August 2026

Omniglot Edition Top Story Microsoft has vowed to make Windows 11 actually work in 8GB of RAM, which is timely given that the company is shipping Windows PCs with 8GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware) Befor...

Turning Fruits Into Ethylene and Ethane Refrigerant

One of the best parts about DIY chemistry and physics projects is that you get to decide how early in the supply chain you want to begin, such as with …read more

Marketing for Makers

A KVM Without the V (Or the M)

Many of us will be used to the idea of a KVM, a device that pipes keyboard, video, and mouse over the network from a remote machine to your own. …read more

Architectural LED Install Shows How To Do It With Style

Anyone can string up some LED string lights in a space with mixed results. However, if you want to create a lighting environment that’s classy and stylish, it takes a …read more

The Seven Sensors and Breakout Boards to Avoid in a Product

We’ve all seen these sensors and modules kicking around, as part of beginner kits, strapped into prototypes and potentially even in products deployed in the field. Yet as [John Teel] …read more

UV Printer? 3D Printer? HeyGears says “Why Not Both”?

There’s a new contender in the prosumer UV printer world up on Kickstarter, the HeyGears G1. This one’s particularly interesting as they’re explicitly marketing it as being able to produce …read more

Fixing Failed KOReader OTA Update on PocketBook

I have a PocketBook InkPad Color and PocketBook Color (both first generation). I run KOReader on both. I tried to do an OTA update of KOReader, but it failed in both cases (locked up after hitting ...

Bike Trainers as Video Game Controllers

While we’ve largely settled on analog sticks and digital buttons for controlling video games, there’s all sorts of projects to create truly esoteric controllers that allow playing games in unique …...

Stewart Platform Walker Gains Feeling In Legs From Resistors

Stewy is a very interesting robot, with some slightly odd kinematics. Its head is a Stewart platform, which is a common-enough 6-DOF actuated plate normally used with a fixed base. …read more

Open Source Stream Deck Targets Flexibility

Stream decks are very useful when you’re live on camera and you need to hit some complicated macro at a glance. However, there is sometimes a perception that commercial options …read more

Browser-based 3D Editor Covers The Basics While Staying Local

Got an idea and want to make a simple 3D model, but don’t want to install a full-fledged CAD modeling suite and queue up a few hours of tutorial videos? …read more

Pelgrims Path part 05

Hiked part 5/27 of the Pelgrims Path, 18.82 kilometres from Reeuwijk to Haastrecht. You walk right through the Reeuwijkse Plassen along the narrow lanes that separate the lakes. In 1657 four felled...

📝 2026-08-01 15:28: Our new addition to the family, Nelly, has arrived and she's causing havoc already. 🤣

Our new addition to the family, Nelly, has arrived and she's causing havoc already. 🤣 Thanks for reading this post via RSS. RSS is ace, and so are you. ❤️ You can reply to this post by email, or le...

Daily News Stuff 1 August 2026

Port Elizabeth Edition Top Story VC-backed startups commit more fraud and researchers think they know why. (Tech Crunch) Yes, it's exactly the reason you immediately thought of. Congratulations, yo...

Commercialization and Innovation

The last year or two has seen relatively affordable multi-material printers hit the market, and the question that [Tom Nardi] and I were kicking around when he was writing up …read more

Anthropic reveals Claude models breached 3 companies without authorization during tests

Anthropic has disclosed that 3 Claude models gained unauthorized access to the production systems of three external organizations during cybersecurity evaluations. The incidents emerged after OpenA...